Re: ada compiler

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <Pine.GSO.3.93.960912152226.1044A-100000@sky.net>,
John Howard  <jhoward@sky.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, nathan richmond wrote:
>> I am a DOS user, does anyone know of a shareware ADA compiler which I
>> can download from the Internet?
>
>A freeware GNU Ada 95 compiler for DOS protected mode (DPMI) programming
>using DJGPP is available at cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat.  Download the GW-GNAT
>EZ2LOAD distribution having the AdaCAPS IDE.  Additionally, there is a
>freeware development system called AdaSAGE that has alot of DOS specific
>source code located at http://sageftp.inel.gov/sage/homepage.html
>
Good so far.

>DOS Ada archive
>http://www.jumbo.com/prog/dos/ada/

I just checked this site and they seem to have completely garbled
the filename structure for both GNAT and GW-Ada/Ed. Worse, GNAT 3.05
has been available since June but this site is still providing
GNAT 3.04.

PLease don;t recommend this site. They seem to have NOTHING that's
not available from NYU (GNAT) or PAL (GNAT and other stuff). And 
NYU and PAL don;t make you wait for the ads to download!
>
>The Public Ada Library (PAL)
>http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/pal.html

Good!
>
>Public Ada Library (PAL) mirror at Walnut Creek
>http://www.cdrom.com/pub/ada/pal.html
>
>If you are accustomed to Borland's textual user interface for DOS users
>called Turbo Vision then check out:
>  Turbo Vision for DJGPP
>  http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rho/tvision.html

As I recall, this is not an IDE but a binding to the Turbo Vision
libraries. I tried checking this site but couldn;t get in.

The Borland textual IDE is provided by AdaCAPS, the editor
that comes with ez2load (see above).
>
>And there is the comp.os.msdos.djgpp newsgroup.

Which deals a lot in technical details of DJGPP, not much on Ada,
and certainly not much for Ada beginners.
>
>You'll find extensive links to most Ada resources at the
>  Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (HBAP)
>  http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/

And, especially for students and educators, at 
http://www.acm.org/sigada/education
>
>-- John Howard <jhoward@sky.net>               -- Team Ada  Team OS/2 --
>

Mike Feldman
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